Quotes by Mike Schmoker

Things get done only if the data we gather can inform and inspire those in a position to make difference.

When we unnecessarily elongate the process of learning to read, we postpone reading to learn - learning itself - by years.

worksheets - the archenemy of abundant, purposeful reading (and discussion and writing).

Learning, without any opportunities to share what weve learned, is a little like cooking for ourselves; we do it, but we probably wont do it as well.

Collaboration allows teachers to capture each others fund of collective intelligence.

The number of books students read...is among the best indicators of student reading development.

In a research-poor context,isolated experience replaces professional knowledge as the dominant influence on how teachers teach.

What gets measured (and clearly defined) does get done.

These programs and reading series are the fruit of an intellectually exhausted literacy industry that lost its way long ago, even as we mutely accepted its misguided agenda - to complicate reading and literacy so that we will purchase its programs and materials.

We must begin where we are and move forward immediately by starting small and capitalizing on whats at hand.

“Things get done only if the data we gather can inform and inspire those in a position to make difference.”